Late at night.
Room 7088 in Dolan Hotel.
Shen Xing, who was sleeping, suddenly felt hot, dreaming as if he was approaching a huge stove, very hot.
Soon he opened his eyes, and his eyes were dim, and the street outside the window was brightly lit. Although the curtains had been drawn, some light still entered the room.
He opened the quilt covering his body, and Shen Xing sat up and looked down. There was a faint feeling of hotness in his chest.
He lowered his collar and saw the place on his chest that had been scratched by Yao Tong with a knife. At this moment, a disproportionate cross pattern glowed red, as if this piece of skin had been burned with a soldering iron.
After he woke up, the reddish light was fading, and the hot feeling in his sleep just now gradually disappeared.
However, Shen Xing had a bad premonition. Originally, he thought that this unfinished cross was gradually healed as Yao Tong's abnormal characteristics were absorbed.
I don't know that although the wound is invisible to the naked eye, it is still on my body. I don't know why tonight, it suddenly appeared after I fell asleep, and there was a burning sensation.
This is likely to be a bad signal to oneself.
Shen Xing got out of bed, put on slippers and walked to the window, opened the curtains and stood there, looking at the street downstairs.
Although it is already early in the morning, the streets here are still crowded with people, but most of them are young people, and there are countless food vendors downstairs on the street, which is extremely lively.
There are even hot-dressed young women who gather on the street in twos and threes, smoking cigarettes, looking at the pedestrians from time to time. If they meet someone who is looking at themselves, they will wink immediately.
Shen Xing turned his head to see that A Chai was sitting at the edge of the window, looking at the night view of the city in silence alone, as if the noise downstairs had nothing to do with him.
Shen Xing touched his chest. The slightly bulging and red areas just now had recovered as if nothing had happened.
He looked at A Chai again and asked, "What are you doing?"
A Chai knew that Shen Xing had gotten up, and did not look back, but reached out and wrote casually in the void in front of him. Obviously, he was very familiar with communicating with Shen Xing in this way.
[I want to be alone. 】
"miss who?"
[I don't know her name, only her breath, she is very beautiful. 】
"Can you still like humans?" Shen Xing was a little surprised, "Did you become like this after death?"
A Chai shook his head and wrote [I am not the ghost you are talking about. Since I can remember, it has always been what it is now, and it has never changed. 】
"Do you remember how you appeared in this world?" Shen Xing felt as if he had begun to explore the secret of the origin of the anomaly at this moment.
But he understands that this matter will not be so easy to figure out.
Sure enough, A Chai shook his head again and continued to write [I don't remember how I appeared, but I seem to have a father. When I have a memory, there is this father in my memory. However, I only met him once. 】
Shen Xing was taken aback, and secretly said that this guy's father might be an anomaly in the sequence chain.
For the abnormal father, it can only be said that A Chai may have been created by his father's abnormality, not necessarily born out of it. Perhaps his father has many children at the same time, and A Chai is just one of them.
"What about your father?" Shen Xing asked.
[He hasn't been here for a long time, but he will take half of the fear I have absorbed. 】
Shen Xing was startled, turned his head and looked around, and asked: "He will be around you at any time? Then take away the fear points you have absorbed?"
[No, as long as I absorb the fear value, they will automatically be reduced by half. Well, I know it was taken by my father. He has always been like this. He never communicated with me. He only knows to take it from me. 】
Shen Xing nodded and reminded: "If he comes someday, you have to tell me in advance."
A Chai was a little surprised and wrote [Will you kill him? 】
Shen Xing smiled, "It's still unknown whether you can win or not, but..."
He turned his head to look at Achai who was sitting on the edge of the window, "It depends on your attitude whether I am an enemy or not."
A Chai nodded slightly to express his gratitude.
[I only know that I was born with fear, and I like those humans who often exude fear, so I will always stay by their side. And the girl I've been thinking of is a coward, so I've been around her at first. 】
Shen Xing looked at the text that appeared in the air, smiling on his face without speaking.
[Later I found out that she was too cute. For example, when I saw a frog on the road, I would jump and scream louder than that frog. When she was asleep, if her finger suddenly touched something fluffy, such as a teddy bear, she would suddenly wake up and kick the bear away. Her fear is different to me from others. It is not only horror and fear, but also reveals a gentle and gentle feeling. 】
"Then your attention was diverted from absorbing fear, and you started to pay attention to the girl's every move?" Shen Xing smiled.
A Chai shook his head.
[No, not only pay attention to her every move, I pay attention to everything related to her, everything she touched, everyone she touched, everything she likes. And since then, I haven't absorbed her fear anymore. 】
"Then what do you do? It's impossible not to smoke, right?" Shen Xing said.
[So I transferred my target and decided to leave her. Because if you absorb someone's fear value for a long time, that person's spirit will disappear bit by bit, until the mental disorder. For so long, I have never caused even one person to become insane. 】
"You are a good... abnormal." Shen Xing nodded.
[But I must absorb a certain amount of fear on a regular basis, otherwise I can perceive that my father might kill me. 】A Chai quickly wrote these words at this time.
Shen Xing thought for a while and nodded, "Every once in a while, you can go out to absorb the fear of those people in their dreams, but the scope is limited to the evil ones. For example, you can choose to start from prison or someone I designate."
A Chai nodded slowly again, this was a way of expressing his gratitude.
[Master, I can feel it, although you control me. But this sense of control is gradually decreasing every day, and I can see that you are not a ruthless person, and controlling me is not just to use me to serve you. 】
Shen Xing is very clear about the reduction in control. Every time he flashes A Chai back, the total number of flashbacks decreases, so naturally his sense of control over him is decreasing.
But I didn't expect that A Chai's feeling was actually very sensitive.
Shen Xing smiled, "In fact, at the beginning, when I controlled you, I wanted you to do things for me."
[I thought so at the beginning, but after experiencing Yao Tong's incident, I changed my mind. Because I found that you are really helping her, not just thinking about destroying and ruining everything. 】
"Everyone is different. They are independent individuals. I am different from those people." Shen Xing said.
[You mean those who invited you to join them? 】
When this sentence just appeared in the air in front of Shen Xing's eyes, a car came slowly downstairs and stopped on the side of the street.
This lot is basically pedestrian at night. It is rare to drive a car into this narrow road at this time, and it is not possible to park for a long time here because it will block pedestrians.
So when the car parked on the side of the street and was not removed, it immediately attracted the attention and dissatisfaction of some passers-by. As they said something one by one, the voice gradually began to increase.
Shen Xing looked down and saw that no one came out after the car stopped, and the car hadn't turned off, so the lights were on, as if waiting for someone.
Not long after, the pedestrians began to point around the car, and some even came forward and slapped the window of the car.
From the roof of the car, Shen Xing felt that the body of this car seemed a bit long, it should be a commercial car, he turned to Achai and said, "Go down and see what's going on?"
If you are a normal person, even if you park your car here without getting out of the car, you can’t withstand so many pedestrians pointing and pointing. If someone slaps the car window face to face, or the person will drive away long ago, or just roll off the car. It is rare for the window to have such a silent reaction to the curse.
A Chai got directly into the window cracks, quickly descended along the outer wall, and soon came to the window cracks on the first floor.
But he didn't show up, just observing and listening to everyone's talk.
Having stayed in the hotel all the time, Shen Xing was already a little bored. At this time, she was no longer sleepy, so she lay down on the window, watching the noisy crowd below.
The commercial vehicle itself is very big. Parked on this narrow and crowded road has indeed affected some vendors to do business. As soon as the people next to them encourage them, things tend to get worse.
Someone pulled the car door. Unexpectedly, the car door was not locked from the inside. As soon as it was pulled, more and more people squeezed to the driver's door and said excitedly.
However, Shen Xing could not hear clearly, but soon the voices of these people began to become quieter. Suddenly, the few people surrounding the driver's position shattered and scattered, staring at the position of the driver's cab one by one, in horror.
There was a surprise from the crowd, and this place immediately attracted more people's attention.
Shen Xing was upstairs and couldn't see what was going on in the car, but seeing the reactions of these people, I expected that the situation was definitely not simple.
He couldn't see A Chai's shadow even when he stuck his head out.
It took another two minutes. During this period, a crowd of onlookers took out their phones and started to dial. Several people with loud voices were talking. They also faintly heard the words "ambulance" and "sheriff".
From this, Shen Xing was even more curious, wondering what happened below. Could it be that the person in the car was injured, or... the wanted criminal was recognized by the onlookers
At this moment, A Chai emerged from the gap on the 7th floor of the window. A Chai's black shadow floated directly outside the window, supporting the outside window edge with one hand, and writing with the other hand "The driver of the car below is dead. . 】
Shen Xing probably guessed just a few results, and asked, "How did you die?"
He saw the commercial car coming by with his own eyes just now, and it stopped steadily on the side of the road. How could he know that the driver died so quickly, how long would it take him to be unable to hold it
Unexpectedly, A Chai shook his head quickly, and continued to write [It has been a long time since I have died. Among the people who opened the cab door just now, someone touched the driver's hand and said that it was cold and there was no temperature at all. 】
Shen Xing was taken aback, his eyebrows frowned.
"Are you sure that person said that? Does anyone else say anything?"
[Yes, the second person also touched the driver's forehead and said that the skin was indeed cold, and then they started calling the sheriff and ambulance. 】
"Come in! Close the windows!" Shen Xing suddenly became severe, and continued to ask: "Have you seen the driver's appearance before?"
A Chai recalled carefully, then shook his head, and quickly got into the house without going out.
Shen Xing closed the window and drew the curtains. The room fell into darkness, but the noise downstairs was still audible.
Shen Xing groaned for a moment, and said: "Now go outside the corridor, hidden near the stairs and the elevator, and find something wrong, brother Ang, immediately find a way to notify me."
Seeing that his expression suddenly became serious, A Chai groaned and stopped asking more. He immediately walked to the door of the room and was about to get out of the door. He heard Shen Xing say again behind him: "Be careful of yourself!"
A Chai turned and nodded, and quickly disappeared from the crack of the door.
Shen Xing immediately took off his pajamas and changed into casual clothes that are easy to move, put on socks and sneakers, put the things in the backpack after tidying up, sticking a telescopic stick on his waist, and putting two pens in his trouser pockets.
After the commercial car stopped by the side of the street, although no one got off the car, the facts proved that the driver had been dead for a long time.
It is impossible for a dead person to be able to drive and drive so steadily.
And now that person has been dead for a while, that is, the abnormality that controlled him has left.
Although I didn't see anything getting off the car, this anomaly is obviously very powerful, and there must be some means of action that ordinary people don't know.
And just now, his chest has been hot, this is Yao Tong left, Yao Tong belongs to the last in the sequence chain, and has been cleared by himself.
If what she left is still working, it may be related to the entire sequence chain.
Shen Xing guessed that the pattern left by the blackened Yao Tong on his chest might be a way of attracting or reminding other abnormalities in the sequence chain. The pattern just appeared and the chest was hot, which might be a hint.
And in this stone city, the abnormality that is in the same sequence chain as Yao Tong and can be felt, using his butt to think about it, there is only one person facing the wall.
Therefore, if there is an abnormality, the greatest chance may be the deity of the wall-facer.
Such a speculation seems to make sense. Unexpectedly, if he didn't look for it, this guy would come to the door first.
It's just that Shen Xing is not completely ready now, and he seems a little passive.
Taking advantage of the fact that he discovered the abnormality a step earlier, and A Chai was watching outside, he immediately called up the wall-facer's information again and read it carefully.
【Name: Wall Facer
Sequence level: medium and high sequence
Sequence analogy: the second category
Sequence source: Fear
Incentive: Extremely ashamed
This type of description: It is a complex of contradictions, eager to be recognized by people, but afraid to meet anyone. Its appearance is different every time. Once someone sees the current back figure, it will follow it like a shadow until the target turns into what it likes. Remember, don't try to turn it around, or you will be at your own risk! 】
"Don't try to make it turn around!" Shen Xing repeated.
He thinks this is very important. The metaphor behind it is that once the wall-facer turns around, it will be extremely difficult to deal with.
If you don't want it to turn around, the only possible way is to try not to attract its attention and avoid any possibility of making a sound, touching or alarming it behind its back.
Thinking of this, Shen Xing naturally came up in his mind to deal with the wall-facer, the most effective of which is to activate the black domain and hide himself in another space.
It's just that the black domain can't start successfully every time, it also depends on the probability, otherwise, if you use this method to hide yourself every time before approaching the anomaly, this skill will be his most dangerous skill.
Of course, there is one more thing he has to consider, and that is whether the black domain messenger will appear. (End of this chapter)